Dear 4th grandaunt,

Today was such a gloomy day, with all that grey clouds and rain, but I'm sure it's sunny up there in Heaven. After 3 years of hard battle with bone cancer, you finally found relief. No more pain, no more suffering.. It's hard to think that I'd never see you again when I walk past the video shop, and that you would never bring us ice cream again..
Rest in peace, grand aunt...

This morning, my 4th grand aunt passed away, after 3 long years of battle with bone cancer. I had totally no mood to study today. I stoned at the library for sometime, although I did complete my differentiation tutorial 4 and began Applications of dy/dx tutorial.

It's just too sudden. I had wanted to visit her, but I never got the chance to. I was too late. Too late...

The next time I saw her, she was lying in her coffin.

I saw her photo first. It showed me the aunt I knew. But whom I saw in the coffin... My goodness... Cancer, damn you fu*cking oncogenes. She looked so gaunt... so thin... practically skin and bones. Chemo robbed her of most of her hair... Ugh, my gosh. I just couldn't stop the tears that came.

But I'm glad she no longer has to suffer, to bear all that horrible, excruciating pain.. If only tumours could be easily blasted apart... If only there were no mutation in the Ras protein and p53 tumour-suppressor gene... If only...

Rest in peace, grand aunt...